background preloader

Typography

Facebook Twitter

Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen. Font Directory. Download fonts. The Most Badass Alphabet Ever. Sometimes I find things on the internet that leave me speechless with their awesomeness.

The Most Badass Alphabet Ever

And considering it’s my job to find crazy stuff all day long, that’s actually saying something. But today I am bowing down to “The A-Z of Awesomeness,” a series of illustrations by Neill Cameron, where he takes each letter of the alphabet, crafts an absurd sentence around it, then brings it to life with an excellent drawing as you can see above. There are 25 more epic letters to go, and you must check them all out below:

Photoshop Typography Tutorials. Jun 22 2008 We cannot escape typography; it’s everywhere on the web.

Photoshop Typography Tutorials

In most modern designs it is used to not only present information but also be read by the users. Today we’re going to take a look at 40 stunning typographic posters, along with step-by-step Photoshop tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. You might be interested to check other related posts for some inspiration: Typographic Posters. Fantastic Typography Blogs For Your Inspiration. Advertisement Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel, it just isn’t complete.

Fantastic Typography Blogs For Your Inspiration

Typography encompasses the reality of effective web design and achieves success in creating web page identity, eye-catching sites, and the enhancement of visual appearance. Typography is much more than the “art of text”, it’s the evolution of creativity within simple to intricate web designs. One can say that a good architecture needs great support, the same concept can be applied to web design in the sense that a good blog could do without the use of typography, but an astounding one could use the creative support. TypoFlat™ / experimental typefaces & then some. 10 Incredible Sites to Improve Your Typography Skills. I think most would agree that typography is a difficult skill to master.

10 Incredible Sites to Improve Your Typography Skills

Cufón - fonts for the people. Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. 13 Typefaces Every Graphic Designer Needs. With thousands of different typefaces on offer, it’s good to have a select few that act as main-stays in your collection.

13 Typefaces Every Graphic Designer Needs

The following thirteen typefaces are ones you’ll find many graphic designers using. #1 Akzidenz Grotesk Akzidenz Grotesk, the first ever sans-serif typeface to be widely used, was originally released in 1898, by the H. Typography for Lawyers. The best font ever! We All Love Typography. Typography is an art and skill which is enjoying a renaissance in interest within the design community.

We All Love Typography

Along with use of space and use of colour, typography is one of the most important facets of good design, and the expert use of tools to manipulate typographical elements cannot be emphasized enough. In this in-depth post, we will be going through some of the tools, at both beginner and advanced levels, available to use when working with type within that unappreciated program, Adobe InDesign. The Character Palette At first glance, the Character palette is pretty straightforward.

You can select a typeface, its style, the leading (the space between lines), tracking (the overall spacing between characters) and kerning (the space between an individual set of characters) as well as some text distortion options. The hidden side of the Character palette can be discovered through the drop-down context menu. The Paragraph Palette. Breathtaking Typographic Posters. Advertisement You can’t design without type.

Breathtaking Typographic Posters

However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicate their ideas through their works. WhatTheFont. ...t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m... 54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark. 54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark If you are a web designer, or a passionate CSS hobbyist, you must be aware of the impact well structured typography can have on your overall design.

54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark

Though, optimizing your typography to work on old and new versions of plethora of web browsers on various operating systems can prove to be quite a headache. With the following list of resources, you can learn, optimize, and beautify your web typography, and never need to worry about those pesky compatibility issues again (I wish!). Typography Tools. 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design.

Advertisement You don’t like to scroll?

80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design

Be prepared. (We warned you.) Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: the choice of a unique and beautiful typeface which manages to fulfill three basic tasks. Support the corporate identity, enrich the visual appearance and is compatible with the overall design. So which typefaces are “bulletproof”? 30 Best Fonts, Downloadable Fonts, Free Fonts, Cool Fonts for Designers. Posted on 02'08 Mar Posted on March 2, 2008 along with 414 JUST™ Creative Comments – Here are 30 of the Best Fonts / Typefaces that every designer must / should own sorted by alphabetical order.

30 Best Fonts, Downloadable Fonts, Free Fonts, Cool Fonts for Designers

There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. Typographica. A Journal of Typography. Build, Share, Download Fonts. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography. Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS.